91.   Investors have shrugged off signs of an improving economy, focusing instead on concerns about a slowdown in consumer spending.

92.   Investors in Intel shares shrugged off news of the Xeon delays Tuesday.

93.   Interest rates rose steadily all year but stocks shrugged off the news and turned in another spectacular performance.

94.   Investors shrugged off the strike, bidding up CANTV stock yesterday and today on the strength of new plans to increase service rates.

95.   It just shrugged off everything I threw at it, playfully scaling the rocks, ditches, climbs and sandy washes without a murmur of protest.

96.   Ivanov shrugged off the argument that Russia is being hurt in the eyes of other countries by the war in Chechnya.

97.   Jones shrugged off the potentially crippling problem of getting teachers, administrators and politicians to sign on to the plan.

98.   Kennedy shrugged off suggestions that such a change of heart might occur.

99.   Larkin shrugged off the class-action suit by viewers pending against Showtime.

100.   Knowing they were virtually certain to retain the wild card, the Mets seemed to shrug off losing the first two games in Atlanta a week ago.